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Production Engineering Manager
Canva
Melbourne, AUS
Full-time
Hybrid
Discovered 1 weeks ago
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Role Overview
Lead Core, one of Production Engineering's two teams.
Lead software engineers who own Production Engineering services and solve broad engineering problems across Canva.
Turn complex, loosely defined problems into focused engineering goals and delivered outcomes.
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Production engineeringSoftware engineering leadershipTeam coaching and developmentComputer science fundamentalsConcurrency and multithreadingData structures
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Role Overview
Lead Core, one of Production Engineering's two teams.
Lead software engineers who own Production Engineering services and solve broad engineering problems across Canva.
Turn complex, loosely defined problems into focused engineering goals and delivered outcomes.
What You’ll Do
- Challenge technical assumptions, understand trade-offs, and support strong engineering decisions while preserving team autonomy.
- Set the team's focus, priorities, future problem areas, initiative structure, and measurement approach.
- Turn project lessons into reusable capabilities with broader organisational impact.
- Set priorities, coach engineers, create psychological safety, and develop team influence.
- Build reliable services, reusable standards, Core–Embedded feedback loops, and growing engineering depth.
Experience
- Lead software engineers through complex or ambiguous technical work and coach them to grow their skills and autonomy.
- Work in software environments where reliability, scalability, and production risk materially matter.
- Own significant technical initiatives from problem definition through delivery across multiple teams.
- Help teams adopt new tools, practices, or ways of working.
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